The Red Fairy Book, Bushy Bride, sentence 190

Snowdrop peeped out of the window, and called out:

Who acts: Snowdrop · What happens: peep out, call out · To what, where: window

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Bushy Bride. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Snowdrop), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Snowdrop	Snowdrop	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 peeped	nsubj
2	peeped	peep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	out	out	ADP	_	6 window	case
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 window	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 window	det
6	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 peeped	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 called	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 called	cc
9	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 peeped	conj
10	out	out	ADP	_	9 called	compound:prt
11	:	:	PUNCT	_	2 peeped	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	peep out	past	Snowdrop	the window					vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent window=Theme
2	call out speech: assert	participle	Snowdrop not said here						vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/47/190/